Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has
declared economic warfare on gun retailers, threatening to treat them
like businesses who traded under Apartheid in South Africa, by withdrawing
investments in companies that refuse to stop selling semi-automatic
rifles and blackmailing retailers into becoming front line facilitators
for gun control.

"Mayor Nutter this morning announced
something he’s calling the “Sandy Hook Principles”
- a list of 20 measures to curb gun violence - that companies making
or selling guns and ammunition must support to avoid “economic
divestment actions,” reports
Philly.com.

The 20 principles (PDF)
include targeting businesses who sell "assault rifles" (despite
this being completely legal) as well as "the distribution of of
any materials/information that may be used to assist in such conversion."

Another one of the principles would
force gun retailers to promote the use of biometric locks on guns that
"allows only the legitimate civilian owner to operate the firearm,"
meaning those Dad and son hunting trips would be a thing of the past.

The list also includes a universal background
check system, tracking ammunition to each individual owner (an RFID
tag for bullets?), while it also demands gun retailers question customers
about whether they have taken a gun safety course.

Under the principles, gun retailers
would also be forced to host, "semi-annual gun buy-back programs
to retire weapons from general public circulation."

Nutter's move is being aped by Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the man who once called for a 'no gun buy list'
similar to the no fly list, who on Monday announced that he would, "ask
all his city’s pension funds to investigate whether they have
any holdings in assault weapons makers and sellers, a step toward divesting
of those companies."

We have already seen gun retailers come
under onerous economic pressure, with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer last
week demanding that gun retailers like Walmart and Sports Authority,
“Suspend sales of modern assault-style weapons until Congress
is able to fully consider and vote on legislation
to curb gun violence.”

Last month, top online gun distributor Cheaper
Than Dirt announced that it had temporarily suspended all gun sales
in response to the Sandy Hook shooting, a move which drew widespread
condemnation from second amendment enthusiasts.

Last week, firearms manufacturer American
Spirit Arms announced that Bank of America had frozen the funds
of the licensed gun dealer, with the bank telling owner Joe Sirochman
he “should not be selling guns and parts on the internet.”
Sirochman was informed that his funds generated from Internet sales
would only be released once BoA had reviewed and cleared them.

By comparing the move to economic pressure
that was placed on South African companies during Apartheid, Nutter
and his ilk are not only trying to legitimize what in reality is a mafia-style
extortion attempt, they are also implying that gun retailers and gun
owners are violent racists who need to be regulated and bankrupted out
of existence. The rhetoric is similar to that of CBS'
Bob Schieffer, who yesterday equated taking down the gun lobby to
"defeating the Nazis."

This represents open extortion and financial
terrorism - the kleptocratic parasite control freak government class
is publicly mobilizing to use mafia tactics to harass and bully Americans
and gun stores into submitting to their thuggish tyranny.

It is important to stress that this
form of blackmail is being imposed on gun retailers, one of America's
few booming industries, completely outside of the law. It is perfectly
legal to sell assault rifles and yet officials in gun control (and gun
crime) capitals like Philadelphia and Chicago are threatening to virtually
bankrupt businesses that dare to exercise their free market right to
trade in legal goods.

Gun control advocates are basically
threatening economic sanctions against gun retailers unless they become
the front lines of the effort to eviscerate the second amendment - again
completely outside of the law.

To understand these gangsters' mindset
- everyone needs to watch the Martin Scorsese masterpiece Goodfellas
(1990). The film is based on a true story and will give you a
window into the minds of these mad dog control freaks.

What we're witnessing is authoritarian
rage at the fact that the second amendment has not been completely destroyed
and that the founding fathers - from their graves - are still defying
these parasites.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and
writer for Infowars.com and Prison
Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also
a host for Infowars Nightly News.